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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (43317)	8/16/2004 10:15:15 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

how dumb is your press corps willing to be? Very dumb when it suits their purpose. I heard Chris Matthews last night state Kerry's position as he would have voted for the war knowing there were no WMDs. Of course, Kerry said he would have voted to authorize Bush to use force even if there were no WMDs. The two statements are quite different.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (43317)	8/16/2004 12:44:53 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 81568

Bush's new TV Ads Once Against Dishonest Lies Bush TV ad targets Kerry on intelligence issues By Mark Memmott, USA TODAY The Bush and Kerry campaigns traded charges over the weekend after the president's aides unveiled a TV ad questioning John Kerry's record on intelligence issues. Tv spot criticizes Kerry's intelligence budget and hearing stance. Screen grab from Bush ad The dust-up followed the release of another Bush ad that breaks ground in campaign advertising by adopting an Olympics theme and preceded what could be more controversy Tuesday. That's the day a liberal group plans to release an ad that calls on President Bush to condemn attacks on Kerry's military record. Bush's latest ad takes aim at the Democratic nominee over "what Kerry says" and "what Kerry does" on national intelligence issues. It charges that when he was a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee in the mid-1990s, Kerry missed most of the panel's open hearings and proposed "slashing America's intelligence budget by $6 billion." Kerry campaign spokesman Chad Clanton responded that Bush had "resumed his misleading negative campaign." Clanton released an analysis of what the Kerry campaign calls Bush's "fuzzy math" on the senator's attendance at Intelligence Committee meetings. The Bush campaign examined records of the committee's 65 open hearings from 1993 through 1998, when Kerry was a member, and counted him present if the records said he was there or contained a quote from him. Clanton says the examination ignored the rest of "more than 329" meetings in those years. Only records of the 65 open hearings are available for review. The committee's Republican chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, said Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press that Kerry should ask him to release the attendance records. The Kerry campaign did not say how many meetings the senator attended. As for the claim that Kerry proposed "slashing" the intelligence budget by $6 billion, the analysis said Bush's campaign co-chairman, former Oregon senator Mark Hatfield, "voted with Kerry" on the issue in 1994. Also, the Kerry campaign said, intelligence budgets "approved by Republicans and Democrats over the next two years were below the level they would have been under Kerry's" plan. The Bush ad, which was released Friday, begins airing today in about 20 closely contested states and is part of an estimated $35 million the Bush-Cheney campaign will spend on TV advertising this month. The Kerry-Edwards campaign is not running TV ads this month, in order to conserve its money for the post-Labor Day push to Election Day, but the president's ad spending is being matched by the Democratic National Committee and independent anti-Bush organizations. The other Bush ad released Friday is unusual for three reasons: • It invokes the Summer Games to tell viewers that "this Olympics ... there will be two more free nations." The message: Afghanistan and Iraq have been liberated under President Bush's watch. "To my knowledge, there's never been a presidential ad so closely tied to the Olympics," says William Benoit, communications professor and campaign advertising expert at the University of Missouri. • It will be aired on MSNBC, CNBC and other NBC cable networks during their Olympics programming, an unprecedented effort by a presidential campaign to reach Olympics viewers. • The ad will also be shown on a network that broadcasts to 250 fitness clubs around the nation, another effort to target a "niche" audience, Benoit said. On Tuesday, the liberal group MoveOn PAC is expected to release a commercial that calls on Bush to condemn an ad being aired in a few states by a group known as Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The group says Kerry exaggerated his military record. Kerry received three Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and a Silver Star for his actions during the Vietnam War. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., condemned the vets' ad. Bush was asked about it last week but said he had not seen it. He did condemn so-called attack ads by independent groups. The Bush campaign said it won't question Kerry's military record.